Across Australia, people are looking to the skies for a saviour. Many people have seen objects in the sky that they could not identify, and many believe that we are not alone in the universe.But there are also people who have built spiritual belief systems around the idea that aliens once came to Earth, and will return one day to take them away to a better place. The Raelians, who had their "annual awakening seminar" earlier this month in Queensland, are a prominent group in Australia that believe aliens created them and will return. These are most commonly referred to as UFO cults, the most infamous of which is Heaven's Gate, whose 39 members committed suicide in 1997 in the hope that their souls would catch a ride to the Kingdom of Heaven on a passing spaceship. But Monash University sociology professor Gary Bouma said religions based on UFOs are an "exceedingly tiny fraction" of religious groups. Professor Bouma, an expert on religion and society, said they were "one of the absolute fringes of spirituality". "It's simply a tiny little group pursuing an esoteric idea. Life has been full of them, they've come and gone," he said. "They never stand up against the mainstream, for a whole variety of reasons." But since space travel began in the 1950s, the idea of extraterrestrials has taken hold of people's imaginations.

Films like Close Encounters of the Third Kind and television series like The X-Files have made aliens and UFOs a part of popular culture. There is even a predominant image of an alien - a small, grey creature with big, dark eyes. And with new technology such as the internet, small groups can have a large and enduring presence. The Raelians are one group that has used the internet to become a worldwide phenomenon. They have an international headquarters in Switzerland, and offices all over the world, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. They claim there are up to 70,000 Raelians worldwide, with about 500 in Australia. A registered non-profit organisation, their main aim is "to create peace on Earth".

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People need to stop looking to the sky for a savior and start looking at what we can here on planet Earth or we are not going to make it to 2035. We are on the brink an environmental disaster on par with extinction of the dinosaurs.

i don't like how they call Raelianism a cult

i don't like how they bring up suicide within the article discussing cults, quietly linking that POSSIBLY the Raelian Revolution would commit the same acts

the only reason its considered to be based on odd religious beleifs that aliens created life is because the Raelian Revolution is led by the prophet Rael...the followers listen to his prophecies, duh!

i don't like how they call Raelianism a cult

i don't like how they bring up suicide within the article discussing cults, quietly linking that POSSIBLY the Raelian Revolution would commit the same acts

the only reason its considered to be based on odd religious beleifs that aliens created life is because the Raelian Revolution is led by the prophet Rael...the followers listen to his prophecies, duh!

it wouldn't be considered so outrageous is a scientist proposed this as a theory...which has happened...quite a few scientist beleive it and apply it to their researches now...not to mention the fact that we have programs like SETI searching for intelligent life...so POSSIBLY there could be extraterrestrials like Rael claims that are the same extraterrestrials that are portrayed as god in less advanced times

I remember people saying this on TV , all the people have 5 dollars in quarters in there pockets, and they all had the same pair of nikes, weird, and they all had the same haircut, even the girls

If there is an Anti-Christ right now, on this planet, it has got to be Rael.

Rael lives like a rich hollywood star. Jesus walked around with cheap sandals.
Rael took, Jesus gave.
Rael seeks immortality, Jesus gave away his.


Ive read his first 3 books...It could not even make a good Sci-Fi story.

KNows wut it says? It says that in the future we will clone people, lobotomize them so they could be stupid and emotionelss, and **** their brains out whenever we feel like it. When were done, we discard them like rotten meat. Believe me, this is exactly wut it says...tho its not in this vocabulary...


I find extremly awkward that some scientist are adept to that religion. Raelians totally sh**s on the concept of evolution...pretending that all species were individually put on earth. The reason why? omg , u dont wanna know. They did this just so they could win some genetic experience contest between each other, who would make the best looking bird...or the best looking...mono cellular microbe or wutever...Did Rael totally forgot that the first sign of life happened more than 500 millions years ago? Are the elohim dumbnuts or just slow.

It denies that our universe had a beginning. No big ban. Alien created each other on loop.

The only reason why people join this sect, its for the free sex.

hahah, This is that cult that dubbed eminem an honorary priest. You certainly are giving them there due amount of publicity UM. aliens or raelians whatever you wanna call them, did not plant the human race on the planet. We are of the earth it has been proven. But hey its your world believe what you will. If you want god to be a little man in a saucer, so it is. It really isnt much more ludacris than conventional religious beliefs.

christianity was a cult in the early years, Raelianism started out as a cult
Jesus died for immortality (he didnt give it away)

I dont know much about this sect, but you can't go around calling someone an 'anti-christ' by how he lives... thats just ignorance.